I feel like I’m playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I’m playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
I finally moved out of my parent’s house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
It’s very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef – I’d love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don’t want that for my children. When they’re older, if people say to them, ‘Did you have a chef?’ I want them to be shocked by the question.
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.
I’m no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn’t taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It’s not a way to live.
I look like people that walk down the street. I don’t have perfect boobs, I don’t have zero cellulite – of course I don’t – and I’m curvy. If that is something that makes women feel empowered in any way, that’s great.
I don’t go to the gym because I don’t have time but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
I still don’t believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don’t stuff down chocolate biscuits.
Since I was 13 or 14, I’ve always felt older than I actually am.
I don’t believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn’t a dress rehearsal!
When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don’t particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.
I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids – and I can say that this does happen frequently – is when the in-flight crew say to me, ‘Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.’ Every time I am told that, I could weep.
My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don’t be ridiculous. Maybe it’s because I’m British. To me, Julia Roberts that’s a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
I’m not a period babe. Not at all.
I had to grow the hair down there. But because of years of waxing, as all of us girls know, it doesn’t come back quite the way it used to. They even made me a merkin – a wig – because they were so concerned that I might not be able to grow enough.
I’m a bit famous now! It’s a bit strange!
If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.
You can’t be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?
By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.